Laos: Anything other than portraits

What best symbolizes Laos to you? This challenge is for everything related to Laos--other than portraits. Those will be DQ'd. But everything else is fair game. If you had only one image to express what this country means to a viewer, what would you show us? It is just fine to have one or more people in your photo. No person in the image should take up more than 5% of the frame. I'll try to monitor this challenge closely and will let entrants know if I think there is a problem--and I'll do this in a timely fashion, so that people will have plenty of time to re-submit new images if necessary. Please, no images that you've already used in prior challenges . . . let's see something fresh and new from you. (I will likely depend on help from other challenge participants in tracking down violators. So, images that are repeats could be DQ'd at any time . .. even after the challenge ends!) Thanks in advance for this. :-)

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Announced:

Thursday, 24th January, 2013 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 31st January, 2013 –
Wednesday, 6th February, 2013
(GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 7th February, 2013 –
Wednesday, 13th February, 2013
(GMT)

Processing rules:

No HDR

No selective desaturation

Be subtle if you vignette in your post-processing. If it looks like it was shot with a Holga, you've gone too far. (Unless you did shoot it with a Holga) :-)

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

-Image must be 1600 pixels on the longest side.

-1% leeway on size restrictions

-Must have a meaningful title

-Either title or details must give location where image was shot.

-Photos that are recipients of suspicious voting patterns will be DQ'd.

-I will give a "Judge's Choice" award to the top (in my opinion) images. Probably the top 3 images. These will be highlighted in the "Challenges" forum after the end of the voting phase.

-No human in this image should take up more than 5% of the image.

-IF YOU ENTERED AN IMAGE, ***PLEASE*** VOTE ON ALL OTHER ENTRIES. THIS SHOULD TAKE LESS THAN 10 MINUTES TO DO. THANKS. :-)

--CHALLENGE WILL BE WITHDRAWN IF FEWER THAN 10 VOTES PER IMAGE. SO, IF YOU ENTER . . . VOTE FOR ALL OTHER IMAGES!!!

-Voting for the other images is a major part of this challenge. If you do not have the time, don't want to vote in your own challenges, etc.. I understand. Please don't enter this challenge, and save the space for another photographer. :-)